Hey has anyone got a copy of or read the book by Boggs and Ehlrich " Butterflies - Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight".
Is it worth having? Or just covering old material.

Stu

Apparantly theres a slight problem with Chimney meadows in that it suffers from quite severe flooding.

Has anyone been to Upper Ray meadows or Pilch Field both are BBOWT reserves.

Stu

thanks everyone. Ill let you know how it gos

stu

count me in

If anyone knows good sites for speckled woods can you check the sites forum and read my request for help post.

Thanks stu

Hi, im fairly new to the forum, i am a PhD student working at Oxford brookes on speckled wood butterflies. This Summer i am doing field work to examine the effects of habitat fragmentation upon the speckled woods oviposition strategy. I need 4 sites, 2 agricultural and 2 continuous woodland. The woo...

Saw my first adult butterfly of the season yesterday a freshly eclosed peacock which must have come in on my christmas tree as it was fluttering around my living room yesterday morning.

Hello A friend of mine is doing her dissertation on the effects of climate change on butterfly populations particularly the effects of last years bad summer. If anyone has any data from last year in the buckinghamshire or bedfordshire region could you please email them to chanandler_bong12@hotmail.c...

Butterflies by E.B.Ford has to be the definitive guide to everything butterflies and is absolutely fantastic there is also a more recent publication (1970's) called the biology of butterflies which involves papers from a conference held on butterflies. The book is dedicated to E.B.Ford and he precid...

I dont wish to be critical but the title "nature wonders" doesnt sound quite right to me. "natural wonders" sounds better to me. I may be wrong but just wanted to suggest this minor difference

It is a fantastic book i have found immeaseurably useful

Went for a walk down a small woodland near me called the spinny and found this rather nice speckled wood who happilly let me take quite a few photos

Went walking along tingewick meadows (a sssi in buckinghamshire) and saw 5 common blues, 3 small coppers, 2 large skippers, 3 large whites, a red admiral, a brown argus and a rather battered peacock.

How do i upload photos??

Thanks

yes areas with woodland do seem to run a bit of a contradiction. All of my sites were meadow or hedgerow sites.

Hi, I spent all of last summer working on my dissertation project which examined the effects of high voltage power lines on butterfly numbers and have found a worrying negative correlation. The closer you get to power lines the less likely you are to see a butterfly. What is worse is that some of th...

I visited a site last week, which i did a lot of work at last year for my dissertation, where previously there had been plenty of commas and ringlets and didnt see a single comma or ringlet, however i did see a couple of brimstones, orange tips and green veined whites. Also i visited south stacks on...

Hello, I'm just starting out with the photography but have a great interest in butterflies and am starting a phd on them in october. Can people recommend a good camera for less than £600 (if possible) my budget could stretch to £800. While searching i found this sigma http://www.warehouseexpress.com...